This prompt is to see how you handle action scenes, with a twist. A thing that can make action scenes much more interesting (for me) is the use of unconventional objects. So I picked a number of…Continue

Because this is the first prompt I think I’m going to make it a slightly easy one. But it might prove a lot more surprising that I had it mind.It’s quite a straight forward assignment. This week the…Continue

Will we see more prompts? Or has the well run dry? Perhaps the other members could make suggestions? By the way don't take this as rudeness please! I have been looking forward to a new prompt that's all!

This prompt is to see how you handle action scenes, with a twist. A thing that can make action scenes much more interesting (for me) is the use of unconventional objects. So I picked a number of…Continue

Because this is the first prompt I think I’m going to make it a slightly easy one. But it might prove a lot more surprising that I had it mind.It’s quite a straight forward assignment. This week the…Continue

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I just completed, as near as I can tell, my first book: a collection stories disguised as a novel. I do currently have a working title that I was initially happy with, BUT it may now be too obscure or inapplicable.

The title as it is now is "The Psalterdemalion." This is a combination of two of my favorite words: Psalter, which is a small book of psalms, and Tatterdemalion, which is a man dressed in multicolored rags and tatters. My thinking was that the man character, a story thief,…

On the 1st August 2015 a special night had arrived for seventy-five year old Robert Harris and his seventy-two year old wife Barbara. Robert was nattily dressed in a blue suit and Barbara looked elegant in a long flowing red and black flowery dress. They were in the heart of the…

So I've got my stories together for my first collection, and am currently working on the connecting narrative. I haven't even thought yet how I'm gonna get this published. Gotta start thinking what I need to do.

Mark stood on a sea cliff top. A wave below roared in and sprayed out a ferocious impact. Its retreat left a glistening carpet of foamy shale. To his left, a slender figured girl appeared, dressed only in a skimpy black nightie. Her blonde hair fell over her face. Scarlet lips whispered to him,…